Watchman, re your avatar...

Did you know that on this day in 1950 Puppets Andy Pandy, Teddy and Looby Loo first appeared on BBC TV. The episodes were repeated for more than 25 years, until the film wore out.

BTW, I'm no 1950s children's programme nerd, I can still remember them and they were crap at the time. One of my more onerous functions on another forum is to add an 'on this day' info to the forum heading. Did you also know that Mary Whitehouse successfully sued Gay News for blasphemous libel after publishing a poem about a Roman soldier fancying a Mr Christ who at the time was up on a cross? I can bore for Wales, me.

Watchman, re your avatar...

Did you know that on this day in 1950 Puppets Andy Pandy, Teddy and Looby Loo first appeared on BBC TV. The episodes were repeated for more than 25 years, until the film wore out.

BTW, I'm no 1950s children's programme nerd, I can still remember them and they were crap at the time. One of my more onerous functions on another forum is to add an 'on this day' info to the forum heading. Did you also know that Mary Whitehouse successfully sued Gay News for blasphemous libel after publishing a poem about a Roman soldier fancying a Mr Christ who at the time was up on a cross? I can bore for Wales, me.

I must admit i did'nt know; I was born in 1956 so would have come into them a bit later, but can still remeber watching them. Along with Flowerpot Men, Tales of the River Bank and Woodentops!

Thers nothing wrong with "knowing stuff" mate

My grandfather would get arsy if I wasn't about as an excuse to catch 'watch with mother'.

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When the original 32 Andy Pandy prints were retired in 1970 another 13 were made in colour, which are the ones I remember watching.

I've seen a couple of the black and white episodes in recent years and, to be honest, the stuff Gerry Anderson was making for very young children in the fifties (Torchy the Battery Boy and Four Feather Falls, to give two examples) was much better.

I wonder when they stopped showing the colour Andy Pandys.

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Mid to late 70s I think, I can remember watching them when I was small. Apparently another series was made in the early 2000s - that passed me by (unsurprisingly I suppose as I would've been in my 30s and not a parent).

I never liked Andy Pandy, I thought he was a goody-goody and very patronising towards Teddy.
I liked the Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Chigley series, Tales From The Riverbank. Also Paddington and The Wombles when they started although I was really too old for them (b1964) but I'd read and enjoyed the books by the time the programmes were made. The original Wombles books were much darker (I remember the Scottish trip being quite terrifying) than the light comic TV series.

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

I enjoyed Muffin the Mule.

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Very popular in rural areas, I hear.

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2172803/London-2012-Olympic-security-Call-Eddie-Eagle.html

Littlejohn is desperately trying to be topical by dealing with the Olympic security story but as usual he lets himself down by failing to do any proper research. He claims that the contract was given to G4S by the last Labour government but it wasn't actually awarded until March of last year.

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Nice couple of "unable to speak English" digs hidden in there. Gotta keep that drip dripping.

Littlejohn is a proper right wing cunt. He does what he does because "that's the way of the world" and he gets his palm well and truly greased for sucking his masters' cocks.

Jeez... just read that one back....

In Littlejohn's and his mates world there are rooms that you don't go into. It is an unspoken rule. You don't open the door and walk into these rooms because what you may find may be upsetting to your social circle, who, incidentally expect that you don't explore these "rooms" because they don't either.

Causes discomfort. Only a "selfish" person would choose to explore these rooms.

It has served Littlejohn well not walking into these rooms. At least financially.

Deep down he knows that he hasn't the balls to walk into his self-hatred room. Where he finds he has been spending his life trying to please his rich masters. So he doesn't go in there. Far easier to walk into the room with Mickey Mouse in it.

Keeps "everyone" happy.....

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Advice he would do well to heed:



http://youtu.be/yNKoH84ioz0?t=44s

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Yeah suppose that's fairly topical, but then he spends half the article going on about Eddie The Eagle.


That could probably be a prefix for Littlejohn's column every week.


What the fuck?

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Is the picture editor a subversive? There's Dicky wondering why Louboutin do shoes with red soles when no-one ever sees the soles, and there is a lovely picture of a Louboutin shoe right next to it demonstrating precisely why and how you are able to see the soles.